A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in the country ...

Wikie and Keijo, the two remaining captive orcas in France, are set to move soon, but if that move is to a sanctuary is still undecided Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9. ... young males were playing with the boats. Orcas in captivity sometimes attack humans. Captive killer whales have been linked to four human deaths and many ...

Two Icelandic killer whales – Wikie ... However, with both whales born in captivity and without the skills to survive in the wild, doing so is proving to be a big problem – imagine taking ...

Wikie and Keijo are France’s last two captive, performing killer whales ... floating nets extending from the land. Whales and dolphins raised in captivity can’t be returned to the wild ...

A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in the country ...

The two orcas -- also known as killer whales -- themselves face an uncertain ... the 2013 documentary film "Blackfish" denouncing the captivity of cetaceans and the Covid pandemic.

Kshamenk has become the last remaining orca to be held in captivity in South America ... a heartbreaking timelapse of the isolated killer whale lying motionless for 24 hours while trapped in ...